Modern Shakespeare Offshoots (eBook)

Ruby Cohn (Autor)

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2015
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6782-0 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and why he has been rewritten, Ruby Cohn examines modern dramatic offshoots in English, French, and German.Surveying drama intended for the serious theater, the author discusses modern versions of Shakespeare's plays, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Although the focus is always on drama, contrast is supplied by fiction stemming from Hamlet and essays inspired by King Lear. The book concludes with an assessment of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative work of Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Alec Clunes • All the world's a stage • Augustin Daly • Banquo • Bertolt Brecht • Blank Verse • Caesar and Cleopatra (play) • caliban • Caliban upon Setebos • Candide • Characters of Shakespear's Plays • Coriolanus • Cymbeline • Cymbeline Refinished • demagogue • Donald Wolfit • Dumbshow • Edmund Kean • Edmund (King Lear) • Epic Theatre • Experimental Theatre • Ferdinand Freiligrath • Feste • Fiction • fortinbras • friar laurence • Gertrude and Claudius • Gertrude (Hamlet) • G. Wilson Knight • Hamlet • Hamlet Had an Uncle • hamlet's father • Hans Henny Jahnn • Horwendill • Imogen (Cymbeline) • Jacques Copeau • Jan Kott • John Barrymore • Kenneth Tynan • king claudius • King Lear • Kurt Weill • Look back in anger • Lothario • Macbeth • Macbett • Macduff (Macbeth) • Martin Esslin • Melodrama • mercutio • Molière • Much Ado About Nothing • Negative Capability • Parody • Peter Brook • Polonius • Potboiler • Pothinus • prince hal • prince hamlet • problem play • Quintessence of Ibsenism • ridicule • Romanoff and Juliet (play) • Romanticism • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play) • Sancho Panza • shakespearean comedy • shakespearean tragedy • Shakes versus Shav • Shylock • Sleepwalking scene • soliloquy • sonnet 135 • Stephano (The Tempest) • superfluous man • sycorax • theatre of cruelty • The Dark Lady of the Sonnets • The Gravediggers • The Last Minute • The Merry Wives of Windsor • The Rehearsal (play) • The Tempest • three witches • Titus Andronicus • tragic hero • tragicomedy • Tristan Tzara • Twelfth Night • Tybalt • Ubu Roi • unrest • Voodoo Macbeth • well-made play • William Shakespeare • Willy Loman • Yorick
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6782-7 / 1400867827
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6782-0 / 9781400867820